Economics
Powell's Patience Fails to Calm Trump Despite Stock Surge
- Already-tricky soft landing gets harder with White House jabs
- Kudlow, Moore call for rate cuts as Fed officials weigh data
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has a mounting distraction as he tries to engineer a rare soft landing of the economy and extend a nearly record-long U.S. expansion: The man who installed him in the job wants no landing at all.